2 Corinthians 11:18
Because many boast in the flesh, I also will boast.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
In Context
19For you are content to listen to the feebleminded, you yourselves being wise.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for the sake of the Meshiha, but we are wise in the Meshiha; we are the weak, but you are the mighty; you are glorified, and we abased.
2 Corinthians 11:12But I do this, and also will do it, to cut off the occasion of them who seek an occasion, that in the thing in which they boast they may be found as we are.
2 Corinthians 12:5Of this I boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
2 Corinthians 12:11Behold, I have been deficient in mind in my boasting, because you have constrained me; for you were debtors to bear witness concerning me; because in nothing am I less than those apostles who are the most eminent, nevertheless I am not any thing.
1 Peter 1:24Because all flesh is grass, and all its beauty as the flower of the field. The grass withereth and the flower drieth up,
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:17-22
The Apostle Asserts His Claims. ( a. d. 57.) 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if… Read the whole commentary →